育てる — meaning in English

English meaning

• breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
• grow verb To increase in size, amount, or extent over time.
• rear verb To bring up and care for a child or young animal until maturity.

Senses

育てる is used for these senses in English:

• breed To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
• bring up To raise or rear (children).
• grow (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
• rear (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
• rear (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.

breed — full definition

1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

grow — full definition

1. verb To increase in size, amount, or extent over time.
2. verb To develop or mature, physically or personally.
3. verb To cultivate plants or cause them to develop.
4. verb To gradually come to have a quality or feeling.

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